2021-08-17 Meeting notes

Date

17 Aug 2021

Attendees

• Alicia Noel

• Nancy Min
• Bobbi Muscara
• Harsh Multani
• Christopher Berno
• Elisabeth Green

Discussion

• The Giving Chain - Bobbi Muscara
  • https://thegivingchain.org/index.html
  • Kickoff project in September
    • Giving Chain will come present to the SIG
  • Three current projects:
    • Giving Chain Princeton - supporting food banks
    • Giving Chain Uttarakhand - flood relief
    • Giving Chain India - menstrual hygeine
      • They are looking for a way for the project to be sustainable, not just donating items for one time use.
      • Has a GoFundMe page - https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-giving-chain?member=13229787&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
      • Linux Crowdfunding page - https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger-the-giving-chain
• 2021 SI-SIG Roadmap:
  
  • Hackathon
    • Proposing a Worldwide Hackathon
      • Replicate India Hackathon on a global scale, include Hyperledger Africa, Hyperledger India
      • Need to find a time that works for ALL of the SIGs
        • Next cross-SIG meeting is in September.
  • Blogposts
    • Shawn Wilborne: Part 2 of the 4 part series: Hazardous materials. Call to action in the future for Hackathon/developing a Hyperledger Labs project
      • https://1drv.ms/w/s!Am3ZbGQdRa7sgY-1Igp5xO2fZHxwg_I?e=cWUjZS
      • Target date: September
    • Bobbi Muscara 
      • Blogpost on The Giving Chain project - will share a draft this week.
        • Will include GoFundMe Link
    • Alicia Noel Blockchain for Social Impact in Agriculture.
      • Target date: October
    • Marc Liberati- UN Volunteers is consolidating feedback from Young UN/UniCoin project. Can put together a post of lessons learned, findings on how to optimize, incentivize care work. Possibly for fall.
    • Other suggestions?
  • Future Presentations
    • Does anyone have suggestions for future presentations?
      
      • Textile space??
      • Sustainable mobility
        • https://dlt.mobi/ - Tram Vo will speak at our August 31 meeting
        • https://devpost.com/software/a-fysvau
  • Launching a SI-SIG project
    
    • Other project suggestions?
      • The SIG could focus on the Giving Chain
      • Unicoin is looking for online volunteers
  • Community Outreach
    • Social Media (Linkedin, Twitter, etc.)
      • Start 'call to action' promotion beginning of September
      • Start promoting Mobi event in med August
      • Promote Shawn's blogpost mid to late September
      • Promote Bobbi's blogpost when it goes live
  • Desired wiki page changes
    • Organize meeting notes links on the left side of the page
    • Chris will take notes as he explores the wiki and share them
  • Other ideas?
    • World Humanitarian Day is this Thursday, August 19
      • http://green247.org/ledger.htm

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